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The Seychelles Bureau of Standards (SBS) and the Seychelles Public Health Laboratory (SPHL) conducted a two-week capacity-building session with a French expert in laboratory and food safety.
The training is part of technical assistance aimed at strengthening the capacities of Seychelles’ laboratories working on official control for food safety under the regional program to support food and nutritional security in the southwest Indian Ocean (SANOI).
This training is expected to improve the efficiency of the SBS lab and reduce the time it takes our technicians to conduct tests. This session has also helped the chemical lab especially to validate a new ISO method, which is an EU reference method for a piece of new equipment that does histamine tests. This will help SBS seek further accreditation later this year for this specific test. The regional program for food security and nutrition implemented by the EU Delegation to Mauritius and Seychelles and the Indian Ocean Commission aims at reducing malnutrition and food insecurity in the Indian Ocean region.
This initiative is funded by the European Union under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF), in partnership with the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). The training facilitator, Benoit Glaud, director of Analytical Laboratory Development, based in France, has over 20 years of experience in analytical chemistry, microbiology, material, and pharmaceutical laboratories.
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The programme included a sanitary and phytosanitary component, which is expected to contribute to strengthening and harmonising their standards in the region and developing a network of quality control and surveillance laboratories in the IOC member states.
